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76002067 [1] Added to NRHP. June 29, 1976. The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, north of the central business district. A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in ...
Tucked behind the Exchange Building are about 200 livestock pens— all that remain of the roughly 2,600 pens that once stood in the Stockyards. This aerial photograph of the Fort Worth Stockyards ...
In 1866, cattle in Texas were worth $4 per head, compared to over $40 per head in the North and East. Lack of market access during the Civil War had produced an overstock of cattle in Texas. In 1867, Joseph G. McCoy built stockyards in Abilene, Kansas. He encouraged Texas cattlemen to drive their herds to his stockyards.
The Great Western Cattle Trail is the name used today for a cattle trail established during the late 19th century for moving beef stock and horses to markets in eastern and northern states. It ran west of and roughly parallel to the better known Chisholm Trail into Kansas, reaching an additional major railhead there for shipping beef to Chicago ...
Guests walk over cattle pens for the Fort Worth Herd On Friday, June 7, at the Fort Worth Stockyards. The city is proposing nearly $1 billion in new development, to include improvements to ...
A Texas longhorn stands in a herding pen on Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Fort Worth Stockyards. Potential new development would allow more interactive spaces for visitors to see the animals.
In 1883, the Fort Worth Stockyards were officially incorporated. [2] Local ranchers wished to encourage interest in their cattle. A conversation between rancher Charles McFarland and Charles French, marketing manager for the Fort Worth Stock Yards, resulted in the first area stock show in 1896. [3]
The Fort Worth Herd Cattle Pens Sam Elliot ’s Shea, LaMonica Garrett ’s Thomas and Eric Nelson ’s Ennis talked business while walking around the cattle pens — which once housed hundreds of ...